The 16th-century painter and designer Girolamo Da Carpi toured Rome extensively, making dozens of sketches of ancient statuary, including images of Hercules, Bacchus, and Venus, as well as his own renderings of religious works that he saw in the Vatican's collections. Forty-five of these drawings appear here in facsimile, alongside photographs of the statues that inspired them. Gudrun Dauner explains the history, artistic significance, and cultural allusions of these works, while the appendix provides further commentary.